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THE WMBZIT6TOIMir« OR, TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE. VoL. I.] THE WASHINGTON 4 AN. PUBLISHED BY JAMES McCAFFERTY, TWICE EVERY 1 MONTH. Office on Macintosh street—opposite the Post Office. Tlii. For a .ingle copy, for one > ear, One Dollar; for six -copies, to one a Ureas, Five Dollars ; for ten copies, to one a-Ulr. ss, Eight Dollars—and so in proportion. Paynieut in all cases to lie made in advance. (KJ- >ll communications by mail,must be post paid, ! to receive attention. Richmond County Washington Total Ab stinence Society. OFFICERS. Dr. Joseph A. Eve, President. Col. John Millkdue, "l Hawkins Hoff, Dr. F. M. Robertson, [> Vice Presidents. Dr. 1. P. Garvin, J. VV. Meredith, • j WM. Haines, Jr. Secretary <f* Treasurer, MANAGERS. James Harper, Wm. F. Pemberton, John G Dunlap, Wm 0 Eve, Jesse Wai.ton, A. Phillips, E. E. Scofield, Dr. Benjamin Douglass, James Goiiby, J. L. Mimms. From the Organ and Washingtonian. Supreme Court ol the Civilized World. ' Croton (Voter vs. King Alcohol. The Court met according to adjournment.— . Present Judge Coinmonsense. The Clerk culled the Court to order—the officers ami jury in their j places. Mr. Landlord, Council for the defendant, ; arose anil addressed the Cotlit as follows : May it please tile Court, and you, gentlemen of the jury, the cause before you is one of great importance; one that effects the rights of private individuals, and you will observe, that it is one of those vexatious suits which too frequently ori ginate in some private pique or malice . it is one, at least, that my client, the King, has always en deavored to guard against, and had he been so inclined, should long ere this have brought an action of slander against the many individuals j who at this ti ne are foremost in urging on this projection; and that 'liis-uit should he brought at tiiis time, when a dreadful excitement is got up among the people unfavorable to the King,! and which is like to break out ill open rebellion' among his numerous subjects, is itself a proof of the injustice of the present attempt upon the au- j thority of the King. Besides there is at this time a band of rebels who meet nightly in all \ parts of tiic country, and that in large numbers, | to hear the flaming speeches of their leaders, j which keeps up the excitement to the disturb-i aace if the peace and against the authority of the King, and by their incendiary speeches are drawing great numbers of the King’s subjects from their allegiance to their rightful sovereign. 1 repeat, gentlemen of the jury, that the time selected to urge on this trial under all these cir cumstances, should induce you, as impartial men to take a favorable view ol this matter, so far as relates to the rights of the accused, in addition to which you will yourselves admit that a pos session or light held for so long a time as has been the government of my client over his liege subjects, should not be so lightly taken away, the consequences of which will prove most dis as'rous to thousands of his subjects. Revolu tions are always attended with bloodshed and gr at misery, and although it inav in the end prove advantageous to t ie designing, it is never theless certain ruin to thousands who are affected by the chang ■. We have, I think, made 't dear j by the testimony of Mr. Porter House and Mr. | Brewer, (and we could here add manv more,) that the King, my client, has been a most indul-! gent monarch, never forcing any into his employ , that he is of good character and keeps the best ol company, and what is called the upper crust, or fashionable of the city and country, ai d that he has made the fortunes of many an individual without labor- -such has been his attachment to those who took him as a friend, and at times made! thousands happy. By vlr. Antiquary, we have j heard his origin and long line of ancestry, and the deference paid to the family for ages; we have I think, sufficiently proven that he has on many occasions been the cause of relievi gsortowand drowning care, which I presume will not be de nied. But t iat he has been guilty of the charges laid down in the indictment, I utterly deny; if any have indulged in his hospitalities and abused his generosity, they have done so with their own free will, and it should not be accounted to him for wrong, but should from his indulgence to those who have visited him, and the many evils he has cured, the good society he has kept, his age and tong line of ancestry, together with the AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, MAV 6, 1813. nobility who still worship him in their closets,] and in public and in private fall down before him. All this should convince you taat what is charged in the indictment is more from malice than any desire of justice. As to the witness on the part of the prosecution, it is, at tile tirst glance, evi- j dent, that they are of tile deluded class of ri hols, ’ who have lelt their allegiance to their righttut j sovereign, and being rebel- should nut be enti tled to your confidence. From all these facts 1 ; have no doubt you will, when you retire, soon re turn with a verdict of honorable acquittal With j tin se remarks 1 leave uiy client in your hands.— Idle Counsel here sat down, when Mr Croton arose, and w ith a calm, dignified | air, addressed the jury as follows: Gentlemen—was it not that I feared you might feel more regret at my refusal to reply to the so phistry and ingenuity of the counsel for the ac cused, l would not exert myself to speak in my own defence, and give you the trouble to hear me. The learned counsel forgot, when he stated to you that this was a cause of great importance, and that his client had done all he could to pre vent it—J say he forgot to add, that this is a cause which has occupied the at'ention of good men f r ages, and that they have long been anx ious to bring it before a court and jury, in the ; hope of driving this usurper and tyrant from the j land; but lie has ever by some means or other, I been able to keep off the trial; it lie is as honest i and upright as stated, why try every ait of a ! swindler to have it deferred f The counsel calls those engaged in the cause, rebels; it would he be well for the gentleman before lie brings such charges, to enquire who is the legitimate sove reign, and wlio the usurper. That 1 have been crowned, and pronounced one of tiie lour kings of the earth a’ the creation, you net d hut to look j into the hook of Genesis, where it is recorded that theie was earth., air,Jirc and Water; hence I you see that I am in the direct line of descent from the creation to the present day, and that the accused was not known till many years afier, when liy the wickedness of men, he assumed my shape and appearance, the mote easily to deceive mankind, by which means be has been able to enlist under his banner a host of the most vile and wretched ol the human race, and has always been able by bribery and corruption to employ landlords, distillers, pedleis, and retailers, to dis seminate his corrupting qualities n all ranks of society. The testimony before you shows the subtlety of his c.our-e, always taking advantage of the weak or the unfortunate, and those easily led astray ; be has never neglected any oppo tri nity to bribe and corrupt the unsuspected, always promising hap, iness to those that gave ear to him, like the serpent in the Garden ol E len; he lias beguiled the young men of our country; he has been the ruin of many a lovely female whose beauty and fine pa’ts, but tor him, would have done honor to tuu parlor of a no leman ; he has as D proven, been the cause of separating man and wife, drawing aw.iy the affections ofthe hus band from her whom he had swo(n to love and cherish; he has, like a gambler, flattered bis victims bv his seductive manners, until he ha robbed liiin of bis all, and then turned him in the street to perish; he has been the originator and peipetrator of more crimes than all toe evils enn t iiled in Pandora’s Box, in which after all, I lope was left when the evils escaped ; hut he strips his subjects of even the color of Hope; he has des troyed whole nations by diffusing in their rulers his spirits, as in the case of Alexander, and has lu en the cause of destroying the best of men, as was the case of Herod, who, while instigated by h m, commanded the head of John tile Baptist to be cut off and brought on a charger to gratify a lewd woman who had indulged in Itissociety; he has corrupted kings and generals, by whom wiiole armies have been lost. The high places of the nation have been disgraced by his intrigues; the common courts of justice have been corrupted by his presence; the pulpit has been, and still is I fear, desecrated by his familiarity ; and the bar has hoc ’me notorious lor courting his favois; and at this day he is still admitted, as he himself has proven, into tile society of the elite of the country, and with what effect let the world judge, for to you, gentlemen of the jury, it is known that in every family where he is admitted, some one or more of the family have fallen before him, and brought shame and disgrace upon themselves and friends,— gotoyour prisoners, and they with the shackles on, will tell you that he, the prisoner at the bar, was the cause; goto your madhouse, and nine times out of ten tiie history of the in mates will be found to show that they have asso ciated with this deceiver of mankind; go to the gallows, and every victim will tell you that the accused was accessary to the crime for which the culprit dies; goto the wretched, neglected, lorh.rn wife, and she will, like Mrs. Goodman, tell you that King A cohol, the prisoner at the bar, is the accursed cause of all her sufferings and want. I will not, gentlemen, detain you any longer by en- umeratingthe crimes the prisoner at the bar has been guilty of, the catalogue of which would fill a colu i n of The Organ and Wash ngton an. Believing in your good sense in this matter, and the testimony before you, I shall submit the case toy. ur hands, with a lull confidence that you will, after receiving the charge from the Coun, and retire to your room for deliberation, render such a verdict as will do honor lo your fellow citi zens, and justice to the accused and your own conscience. The Clerk then called over the names ol all the jurors, when the Judge delivered lus charge as follows; Gentlemen—you have heard the testimony, and the counsel f 'or and against the prisoner.— The Court charge that you are bound to try ti e facts in the case, and wnetlier the charges in the indictment have been supported by pioof. The Couri is ofthe opinion that they have, but this is tor you to decide; that the law takes cognizance of the crimes charged is certain, it is left for you to say whether the prisoner be guilty or not guilty. The jury retired for a few moments ami re-; turned a verdict o (guilty of all the counts in the j indictment, Whereupon the prisoner was re- | innnJod toawatt his sentence, which would he on ; some early day. The counsel ofthe sccursed filed a bill of ex ceptions, which was received—and the Court ad- 1 journed, to meet some future day. sentence of KING AI.C Hint.. Judge Coinmonsense on the Bench. The | Court-room being crowded, the Sheriff was or dered to place the prisoner in the dock The Judge rose and asked the prisoner what he had to say, why the sentence of the law should not he passed u|mu him. Tne prisoner replied, that he felt great embar rassment, and much humbled, at being thus ar raigned before a court which Consists ol thousands who had, tip to this time, done him reve ence j ami he the consequences what they w. uld, he I should, in the presence ofthe world, proclaim his liioocence! And he desired that it might tie put I upon the records of the court, that he complained ofthe want of fairness in the trial, the juiy and witnesses being prejudiced against him, and let the sentence be what it may, I shall, said he, ap peal to ihose faithful subjects who yet adhere to me, to see me righted in this matter, With these remaiks I abide the result. The Judge th.m addressed him as follows: You, King Alcohol, have been indicted by the Grand Inquest of the World, In a true bill, tuc charges of which I need not iriumeratc—you have had sufficient lime allowed you to prepare for your defence; you have had aide co insel, ami also, a fair and impartial trial, by a jury of the country; and they, alter hearing the testimony in the case, with due deliberation have found you •uillyofall the charges in the indictment, and rendered a verdict accordingly. It now becomes the duty of the Court to pass sentence upon you according to your cr tries, which are numerous. The sentence ofthe Courtis, that you, King Al cohol, be deprived of ad authority—that you have I the mark of Cain put upon you, and that you lie 1 an outcast from society, and that you, and all that ; continue to associate with you, lie considered a pest and a nuisance to mankind, anil the Court orders that it be the duty of every Washingtoni an to unite in driving you from the earth, todwell with the spirits of icmorse, till t me shall he t.o more, And it is further directed, that this sen tence be read before every Washingtonian Socie ty, in order that the decree ofthe Court be uni versally known. The Court adjourned, sine die. A I’retty Incident. The late temperance relormaiion has given rise to many pleasing and affecting incidents, a | majority of which, perhaps, are never related ex j cept within the walls of the temperance hall, and are thus lost to great numbers wl.o would take pleasure in hearing <•!'reading them. We can not refrain from giving one of these, which we heard at a temperance meeting in Brooklyn some i time since, from the lips of one ofthe parties con- I corned—who, we believe, is now a resident of this city. Should we err in any of the minor points, our apology must be found in tiie length of time which has transpired since we listened to it. A temperance lecturer whom we shall call Mr. : A., by profession a lawyer, was called upon to ; deliver a temperance oration, on tse Fourth of ] July last, in a town not far distant from this citv. ] On hi 3 way thither, he noticed that he was very j closely ohservid by a well-dressed gentleman who sat opposite him, and lie was mueh puzzled to ae ; count for the remarkable attention thus bes'owed Alter scrutinizing Mr. A.’s features for some ; time, the stranger finally ventured to enquire his ' name, adding, byway of apology for so doing, that he resembled a lawyer he was once acquaint* ed with, who hail led a very dissipated liie, and who, he supposed, had long before fallen a vic tim to the liquui poison. Mr A. evaded giving his own name, by ask ing that of the lawyer referred to. “ His name, replied the stranger, “was A. The last time I saw him, he was lying drunk upon a bench, in a low groggery in New York, and we aroused him to decide a bet of liny cents for us, the resu.t of which was depending upon & point of law.” • “ 'Veil, sir,” returned Mr. A., “ I am that very man —but what may j call your name 1” “ My name is B.” replied the stranger. “What! Is it possihl* you are the same B. who used to met t us!—that poor, miserable joui neytnun printer, who so often e’bt kicked into the street by the landlord, alter getting dead drunk on raw whiskey 1 Why, you were the hardest drinker in the lot and the lasi 1 heard of you, you were just dying with the delirium tremens! But you look first rale , now.” ‘Oh, yes,” said 8., “ofcourse I do—l have signed the Washingtonian pledge. But what makes you look so well 1 “ Why, to tell the truth, old fellow,” sa : d Mr. A, 1 have joined the Washingtonians too!” “ I thougut as mut It,” exclaimed Mr. B , seiz ing his old companion by the hand, and giving it a hearty shake, “ I thought by vour looks that y.u were a Wasi ingtonian. But which way are you hound 1” “ I am going to N , to deliver a Fourth of July temperance oration,” said A.; “won’t you go along too 1” “I can’t really," replied the other; “ for the fact is, lam going to P ,to deliter a temper ance oration myself!” Some farther conversation passed, and the two men separated. They had been snatched, as it were, as brands from the burning, through the instrumentality oi the Temperance Pi.ki ge, and m the spirit of true Wash ngtonianism were go ing forth to oiler that Pledge to their fellow men, 1 and to bear witness to ta efliei cy, when they met I and renewed their acquaintance in the manner w,- have described. i There is something pleasant—something j cheering—in the contemplation oi an occumnee like this. Theie is that in it which finds its way directly to the heart, and causes the blood to dance through the veins with a quickened veloci ty ; f. .r it tells of men, once bound in cruel chains, now fiee and independent —es friends, once dis consolate and desponding, now blithe and joylul —and of firesides, once gloomy and desolate, now cheerful and happy. Charge of Censure Repelled. It has been urged by some opposed to the Tcm > peranee movements, that our proceedings neces sarily imply censure on those who do not join our Society. We must confess we cannot for our lives discover any necessary connexion bet ween their inference and its antecedent; nor can we understand the rationale by which they have arrived at their conclusion. Among these who .filler from us in our opinion rißjiecung the pro priety and expediency of our proceedings, we reckon many ot our first and most influential friends;—some whom,God knows, we love as brothers —some whom we respect as mentors, and some whom we esteem and vein rate as fathers. True, we regret, sincerely regret, th t there should exi-t a deference of opinion between us on a subject of such magnitude and of such vital im portance to the community at large.—But regret is the only feeling excited. We onteitain no ap prehension that this difference of opinion will se vei the bonds of friendly intercourse that subsists between us.—lt can produce no discord in the hearts ot the open, honorable and high-minded ; and, as to your cold, selfish, narrow-hearted— from the friendship of such we shall ever devout ly pray. “ Good Lord, deliver us.” From the sensibility manifested on this subject by certain of our opponents, we verily appre. end there may be a consciousness of something “ rot \ ten in Denmark” a consciousness that censure jis deserved. It is an ancient therapeutical max* ] im, “ übi irritatio ibi fiuxus," —The reverse of : this is equally true. Vv here there is a determi | nation to a part, irritation will be found to ex st, I as a local and exciting c^use. But if this objection avails any thing against association*- for the promotion of Temperance, it will prove equally effectual against every combi nation of individuals for the attainment of moral ends. Are cur opponents prepared to go that length 1 If they are, they may journey alone— we s.iall not follow them .— Penjield 7 . Banner. A Washingtonian says bo don’t believe irt temperate drinking; a man who drinks at all drinks too much; and there is about as much sense in calling a man a temperate drinker as there is in saying he is a holy sinner 1 [No. 23.